-Kentucky native
-began his career in 1956 as a sports journalist
-writing for the base paper at Eglin Air Force Base in Niceville, Florida
-worked briefly as a copyboy for Time Magazine while living a beat-inspired lifestyle in New York City
-began vacationing extensively in the Caribbean Islands and South America
-Thompson eventually became a somewhat celebrated South American correspondent for a Dow Jones owned weekly magazine called The Observer
-Thompson wrote two serious novels (Prince Jellyfish and The Rum Diary) and copious amounts of short stories
-got his big break when he pitched a story to Harper's Magazine about his relationship with the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang
-After the article was published, numerous book offers on the subject were awarded his way
-He later worked for Rolling Stone magazine, where his next two books Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 1972 were first serialized.
-Thompson frequently referred to himself as "Raoul Duke" or "Dr. Gonzo."
-He received his 'doctorate' from a mail-order church in the sixties.
-Some of Thompson's other books include Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
-Campaign Trail-he book focuses almost exclusively on the Democratic Party's primaries and the breakdown of the party as it splits between the different candidates.
-In 1970, Thompson made an unsuccessful bid for Sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado. He ran on a platform promoting decriminalization of drugs and the sale thereof, and renaming Aspen, Colorado as "Fat City
-Quotes- "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro,"
-Quotes-"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
-last book, Kingdom of Fear
-Thompson also wrote a Web column, "Hey Rube," for ESPN.
-He had at times also toured on the lecture circuit, once with John Belushi
-Thompson was an admitted fan of firearms and was known to keep a keg of gunpowder in his basement.
-Thompson died at his home in Woody Creek, Colorado, on Sunday, February 20, 2005 of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. He was 67 years old
-Thompson is generally regarded as the grandfather of the blogging movement.
-middle name was Stockton
-referred to himself as "Raoul Duke" or "Dr. Gonzo."
-originally a sports journalist writing for various publications
-worked for Rolling Stone magazine during the late 1960s and 1970s-
-published several books and numerous articles
-noted for the creation of gonzo journalism
-1971, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a travelogue of Thompson's trek (along with his attorney, Oscar Zeta Acosta) to cover a narcotics officers' convention in Nevada and the "fabulous Mint 400" motorcycle race.
-Instead, Thompson and Acosta wind up on a search for the American dream in Las Vegas with the aid of heroic amounts of LSD, ether, adrenochrome, and numerous other drugs.
-Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72- about the campaign of Nixon
-Hell's Angels-an account of his travels with the infamous motorcycle gang
-Kingdom of Fear, is an angry commentary on the passing of the American Century
- Web column, "Hey Rube," for ESPN.
- He has at times also toured on the lecture circuit, once with John Belushi.
-Cartoonist Garry Trudeau based his Doonesbury character Uncle Duke on Thompson
-From a 153 foot tall Gonzo Fist (that's 2 feet taller than the Staue of Liberty) that was custom built on his Owl Ranch in Woody Creek, Hunter had his remains blown out of a cannon that turned into a fireworks display that would shame most cities' Fourth of July celebrations.
-Hunter was a large influence on George's life and subsequently on the creation of the Flying Dog brand
-died at 67
-The Gonzo artist creates all of Flying Dog's signature labels
-With writers like Tom Wolfe and Gay Talese, Thompson was known for a new style of journalism
-Thompson was found dead Sunday in his home near Aspen, Colo., of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound
-he walked into the kitchen and shot himself dead in the head
-He said he wanted his ashes shot out of a cannon.
-last column was a sports column for ESPN Page 2
-began his career as a sportswriter
-said that the only part of the newspaper you could trust were the sports box scores because "there were too many witnesses to the final score for anyone to lie."
-died at 67 gunshot wound at his compound in Woody Creek, Colorado
- writer Tim Ferris and others of Hunter's close Frisco friends sat shiva with owner Jeanette Etheredge.
- Gavin Newsom recalled was the night when Thompson took every glass in the bar and stacked them in an increasingly unstable pyramid on four cocktail tables.
-he was a part time night manager for Playboy
-many people considered that after his death his work was more appreciated
-a recipient of the H.L. Mencken Award
-a longtime columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle
-Examiner and the former editor of Ramparts
-former editor of Scanlans Monthly
-former editor Francis Ford Coppollas Magazine
-publisher of The Argonaut in San Francisco
-chewed tobacco
-wrote for Gonzo Journalism
-compared with people like Lenny Bruce and H. L. Mencken
-a high-strung, thin-skinned, programmatically dissipated workaholic, inveterately suspicious of authority, perpetually worried that his best days were behind him
-his true model and hero was F. Scott Fitzgerald
-He used to type out pages from "The Great Gatsby
-Fear and Loathing is Las Vegas was published in 1972
-first book Hells Angels was published in 1967 when he was thirty
-Commissioned by Playboy to produce a profile of the Olympic skier Jean-Claude Killy,
-the literary and (often) first-person style of reportage associated with magazines such as Harold Hayes's Esquire and Willie Morris's Harper's,
-The obsession with violence and chemically induced dementia in Thompson's writing gave it a kind of post-Altamont,
-a favorite not of the protest marchers and flower children of the sixties but of the youth of the burned-out decade that followed.
-Thompson despised the Hell's Angels
-he calls them "mutants" and "losers" in his book
-he had little patience for the hippies
-By 1966, he thought, that world was dead
-popped pills
-F. Scott Fitzgerald had once thought of calling "Gatsby" "The Death of the Red White and Blue."
-Hunter S. Thompson
-Thompson emerged on the scene in the late nineteen-sixties
-killed himself last week in his house in Woody Creek, near Aspen, Colorado,
- he was a magazine writer.
Hunter Thompson changed writing forever. He was one of the most influential writer in the 20th century
http://www.hunterthompson.org/biography.php
-Kentucky native
-began his career in 1956 as a sports journalist
-writing for the base paper at Eglin Air Force Base in Niceville, Florida
-worked briefly as a copyboy for Time Magazine while living a beat-inspired lifestyle in New York City
-began vacationing extensively in the Caribbean Islands and South America
-Thompson eventually became a somewhat celebrated South American correspondent for a Dow Jones owned weekly magazine called The Observer
-Thompson wrote two serious novels (Prince Jellyfish and The Rum Diary) and copious amounts of short stories
-got his big break when he pitched a story to Harper's Magazine about his relationship with the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang
-After the article was published, numerous book offers on the subject were awarded his way
-He later worked for Rolling Stone magazine, where his next two books Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 1972 were first serialized.
-Thompson frequently referred to himself as "Raoul Duke" or "Dr. Gonzo."
-He received his 'doctorate' from a mail-order church in the sixties.
-Some of Thompson's other books include Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
-Campaign Trail-he book focuses almost exclusively on the Democratic Party's primaries and the breakdown of the party as it splits between the different candidates.
-In 1970, Thompson made an unsuccessful bid for Sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado. He ran on a platform promoting decriminalization of drugs and the sale thereof, and renaming Aspen, Colorado as "Fat City
-Quotes- "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro,"
-Quotes-"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
-last book, Kingdom of Fear
-Thompson also wrote a Web column, "Hey Rube," for ESPN.
-He had at times also toured on the lecture circuit, once with John Belushi
-Thompson was an admitted fan of firearms and was known to keep a keg of gunpowder in his basement.
-Thompson died at his home in Woody Creek, Colorado, on Sunday, February 20, 2005 of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. He was 67 years old
-Thompson is generally regarded as the grandfather of the blogging movement.
http://www.flyingdogales.com/Gonzo-HunterSThompson.aspx
-middle name was Stockton
-referred to himself as "Raoul Duke" or "Dr. Gonzo."
-originally a sports journalist writing for various publications
-worked for Rolling Stone magazine during the late 1960s and 1970s-
-published several books and numerous articles
-noted for the creation of gonzo journalism
-1971, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a travelogue of Thompson's trek (along with his attorney, Oscar Zeta Acosta) to cover a narcotics officers' convention in Nevada and the "fabulous Mint 400" motorcycle race.
-Instead, Thompson and Acosta wind up on a search for the American dream in Las Vegas with the aid of heroic amounts of LSD, ether, adrenochrome, and numerous other drugs.
-Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72- about the campaign of Nixon
-Hell's Angels-an account of his travels with the infamous motorcycle gang
-Kingdom of Fear, is an angry commentary on the passing of the American Century
- Web column, "Hey Rube," for ESPN.
- He has at times also toured on the lecture circuit, once with John Belushi.
-Cartoonist Garry Trudeau based his Doonesbury character Uncle Duke on Thompson
-From a 153 foot tall Gonzo Fist (that's 2 feet taller than the Staue of Liberty) that was custom built on his Owl Ranch in Woody Creek, Hunter had his remains blown out of a cannon that turned into a fireworks display that would shame most cities' Fourth of July celebrations.
-Hunter was a large influence on George's life and subsequently on the creation of the Flying Dog brand
-died at 67
-The Gonzo artist creates all of Flying Dog's signature labels
-With writers like Tom Wolfe and Gay Talese, Thompson was known for a new style of journalism
-Thompson was found dead Sunday in his home near Aspen, Colo., of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound
http://find.galegroup.com/gps/retrieve.do?contentSet=IAC-Documents&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&qrySerId=Locale%28en%2C%2C%29%3AFQE%3D%28SD%2CNone%2C32%29%22Thompson%2C+Hunter+S._1Influence%22%24&sgHitCountType=None&inPS=true&sort=DateDescend&searchType=SubjectGuideForm&tabID=T003&prodId=IPS&searchId=R2¤tPosition=1&userGroupName=fcpsbhs&docId=A129967253&docType=IAC&contentSet=IAC-Documents
-he walked into the kitchen and shot himself dead in the head
-He said he wanted his ashes shot out of a cannon.
-last column was a sports column for ESPN Page 2
-began his career as a sportswriter
-said that the only part of the newspaper you could trust were the sports box scores because "there were too many witnesses to the final score for anyone to lie."
-died at 67 gunshot wound at his compound in Woody Creek, Colorado
- writer Tim Ferris and others of Hunter's close Frisco friends sat shiva with owner Jeanette Etheredge.
- Gavin Newsom recalled was the night when Thompson took every glass in the bar and stacked them in an increasingly unstable pyramid on four cocktail tables.
-he was a part time night manager for Playboy
-many people considered that after his death his work was more appreciated
-a recipient of the H.L. Mencken Award
-a longtime columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle
-Examiner and the former editor of Ramparts
-former editor of Scanlans Monthly
-former editor Francis Ford Coppollas Magazine
-publisher of The Argonaut in San Francisco
-chewed tobacco
-wrote for Gonzo Journalism
http://find.galegroup.com/gps/retrieve.do?contentSet=IAC-Documents&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&qrySerId=Locale%28en%2C%2C%29%3AFQE%3D%28SD%2CNone%2C32%29%22Thompson%2C+Hunter+S._1Influence%22%24&sgHitCountType=None&inPS=true&sort=DateDescend&searchType=SubjectGuideForm&tabID=T003&prodId=IPS&searchId=R2¤tPosition=4&userGroupName=fcpsbhs&docId=A129826527&docType=IAC&contentSet=IAC-Documents
-compared with people like Lenny Bruce and H. L. Mencken
-a high-strung, thin-skinned, programmatically dissipated workaholic, inveterately suspicious of authority, perpetually worried that his best days were behind him
-his true model and hero was F. Scott Fitzgerald
-He used to type out pages from "The Great Gatsby
-Fear and Loathing is Las Vegas was published in 1972
-first book Hells Angels was published in 1967 when he was thirty
-Commissioned by Playboy to produce a profile of the Olympic skier Jean-Claude Killy,
-the literary and (often) first-person style of reportage associated with magazines such as Harold Hayes's Esquire and Willie Morris's Harper's,
-The obsession with violence and chemically induced dementia in Thompson's writing gave it a kind of post-Altamont,
-a favorite not of the protest marchers and flower children of the sixties but of the youth of the burned-out decade that followed.
-Thompson despised the Hell's Angels
-he calls them "mutants" and "losers" in his book
-he had little patience for the hippies
-By 1966, he thought, that world was dead
-popped pills
-F. Scott Fitzgerald had once thought of calling "Gatsby" "The Death of the Red White and Blue."
-Hunter S. Thompson
-Thompson emerged on the scene in the late nineteen-sixties
-killed himself last week in his house in Woody Creek, near Aspen, Colorado,
- he was a magazine writer.